Hi there! New to this forum so I thought I'd bring you pictures and video of my track here in Umbria.

It started as a 2-lane SSD race track but then expanded with a single-lane routed MDF section which includes a village and viaduct. That grew again when I added a second village, railway line and a mountain. My plan is to convert the 2-lane section into more of a road track, doing away with the pits, grandstands, etc and create a small village there with filling station, hotel, and a few houses.

So, here is the two-lane section.

The pits were removed for this event, the Mini Mille Miglia, which raised over 6,000 euros for the Alzheimer's Research Trust over the three events. Notice the superb start ramp, kindly made for me by a guy in Canada.

Yep, the railway line works, complete with level crossing which may, or may not hold the cars up.

Yep, the camera car works, with onboard wireless webcam...in colour with sound relayed to a big screen in the next room for this event. I had it facing backwards to video following cars and that worked great.

There will be a vineyard (Trebbiano grapes) in the brown field later and maybe a villa on the hill where the car park is.

And here, I hope, is a video of my son driving his Jag XK120 around the complete circuit, which took about 45 seconds.

Nice mate alot of really nice detail and touches that make it superb. Only time I have put that much work into something was a world war two demo game that looked like the final scene from Saving Private Ryan.

Thanks guys. Just to add that the complete track is portable. Each section fits into the back of my car. Currently in storage, it will be set up in Brama Model Shop next October for the Italian round of the SCX Proxy World Rally Championship. I also have a four-lane Ninco track and if we can find a suitable clubroom both tracks will be set up permanently there.

No ZeGas, it's hibernating at the moment. It will be set up in Brama Model Shop for at least a month, September/October this year, during which the Italian round of the SCX WRC takes place. I hope by then to have a permanent home for it.

You're right dangermouse. I'll add that video too when I get a minute. It was Adrian Norman of Scalextric versus my son Tom for the final of the pursuit race, which Tom won. In fact he won each of the three years and won the MMM outright last year. Top lad!

Glad to see you on Auslot regular now. I have admired your track for years now and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger (well done). With input from international people like yourself this forum will just keep getting better.

Mat

Why race on any old figure 8 track when you could be racing on a track designed to replicate a piece of Australian motorsport history like Oran Park Raceway.

I've found the video you're referring to. I was the 2010 Mini Mille Miglia.

This is the last couple of minutes of a 20 minute battle between Adrian Norman, Marketing Director of Scalextric, and Tom Lane, a team leader scientist with Sun Chemical. It was all getting a bit ragged at the end and the cars were not as smooth as they should be, but it was a hell of a battle!

The idea is that they start half a lap apart and the race is over when one passes the other. That means the single section is out unless you deslot off the track. With two good drivers it gets really exciting.

By the way, there are over twenty thousand bricks on that viaduct, each one individually made, stuck one, painted, and grouted.

HI Graham, I've not seen some of those photos in post # 3 before. Each time I see it I'm really sad we couldn't make it to the meeting when Adrian was there Always good to see the track, glad you've made the jump too.Simon

Great to see you here too Simon. I hope you can get over here one day and share a glass of wine with us.

There are some photos there that have never been published, so you won't have seen them. I have a huge archive and there are loads more take by guests and drivers at the various MMMs. I'll try to find some more.

Welcome Graham, for those of you who don't know Graham, he is an ex-pat Pom living in Italy, with an amazing place in the hills of Umbria. This bloke has some pull... he managed to get Sir Stirling Moss to be the Patron of his brain child, the Mini Mille Miglia!!! A FUNd raiser for the desease that claimed his Mum's life (I believe), Altzheimer's.

Graham, please feel welcome here, your talents in modelling won't go unnoticed... and to make sure, please link your YouTube HowTo videos on brick making!!!! That viaduct is up there with the Colloseum!!!!!